“According to recent studies, at least one star out of three is multiple.”

Source: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 13, Government Science, p. 258

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "According to recent studies, at least one star out of three is multiple." by Stanislaw Ulam?
Stanislaw Ulam photo
Stanislaw Ulam 33
Polish-American mathematician 1909–1984

Related quotes

Steven Pinker photo
Bob Dylan photo

“He's following a star, the same one that the three men followed east.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Man of Peace

James Mace photo

“Just as one cannot study the Holocaust without becoming half Jewish in spirit, one cannot study the Famine and not become at least half Ukrainian.”

James Mace (1952–2004) American historian of the Ukraine

"Legacy of the Famine: Ukraine as a postgenocidal society" in The Day (February 18, 2003) http://www.day.kiev.ua/en/article/close/legacy-famine-ukraine-postgenocidal-society

Honoré de Balzac photo

“A man ought not to marry without having studied anatomy, and dissected at least one woman.”

Un homme ne peut se marier sans avoir étudié l'anatomie et disséqué une femme au moins.
Part I, Meditation V: Of the Predestined, aphorism XXVIII.
Physiology of Marriage (1829)

“Well, that is one of the three foundations of learning: see much, study much, suffer much.”

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book I: The Book of Three (1964), Chapter 1

Blu photo

“Be a star out your gang & aim above the clouds, and if you miss, you at least be amongst your own crowd.”

Blu (1983) American rapper and music producer

The World Is (Below the Heavens)
Below the Heavens (2007)

“Socio-technical studies needed to be carried out at three broad levels - from micro to macro - all of which are interrelated:”

Eric Trist (1909–1993) British scientist

The evolution of socio-technical systems, (1981)

Wilhelm Reich photo
Sam Nunn photo

“The only politician to be a rising star in three decades.”

Sam Nunn (1938) American lawyer and politician

About Bill Clinton
Quoted in George J. Church, "Is Bill Clinton For Real?," http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,974739-3,00.html Time 27 January 1992

T. Harv Eker photo

“If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon”

T. Harv Eker (1954) American writer

Source: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth

Related topics